Understanding Life’s Finite Nature
00:00:00.000 | what are some of the ways that someone can actually become more aware of that finite nature of time?
00:00:06.160 | I think the first thing that people need to do is simply ask themselves a set of questions around
00:00:12.560 | time as an asset. Questions that sort of frame up the fact that time is a valuable asset in
00:00:18.400 | their life and one that is terrifyingly finite and impermanent. So each section of the book is
00:00:23.360 | framed around one big question. The big question in time wealth is how many moments do you have
00:00:27.600 | remaining with the people you love? And we talked about this last time in the context of those
00:00:31.920 | charts. These short windows of time during which these people occupy your life. They are very finite
00:00:37.600 | and we don't think about that enough in the moment. We think about it at the end once it's too late.
00:00:42.880 | Time has this funny nature where for most people you think about it not at all until the very end
00:00:47.520 | when it's the only thing you think about but then it's too late. You can't do anything about it.
00:00:51.200 | Asking yourself those questions in the present along the way is the path to actually developing
00:00:55.920 | more awareness about that time, about the fact that it is finite.